Smile & Pick Your Dapper PFP 📸
Featuring a long awaited feature, packs that no one wants, and some odd stuff in the association.
What’s up everybody. Yes, its LG Doucet here.
Listen, all sports are super weird. Thats why we love ‘em.
But the NBA has a knack (spelling!) for bizarre scenarios, probably due to the long season, interesting personalities, and various injuries/load management.
Three items of note from this past week:
This half time buzzer beater that occurred…in the 3rd quarter.
The Pelicans beat the Warriors and almost set a franchise high (GSW was without Steph, Klay, or Draymond)
Third point was originally going to be about how well Ben Simmons has been playing lately. But last night the Nets lost to a depleted 76ers team in a total “revenge game” downer.
So here he is shrugging like MJ instead:
Lets get to all the action on the NFT side from the last few days:
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PFPs come to Top Shot (and others) 📸
Well well well. Look at the feature that was finally implemented!
After being teased for almost AN ENTIRE YEAR, Dapper Wallet has finally enabled people to change their Profile Pictures on Dapper products (i.e. Top Shot).
It was literally way back in December 2021 that this featured was teased by the Gaia team, and it has finally come to fruition!
Did you change yours? Let’s see it in action!
Sorare NBA almost hits 89k weekly entries 🔥
My goodness.
I’m truly astonished at how well Sorare has been doing with their NBA product.
And I don’t mean to compare it to other NBA NFT products - more so that I’m impressed that a project can bring in this many weekly users in any capacity in the bear market
Below is my current score in each competition. Notice that the “Common Champion” tournament has almost 88,873 entries.
And those aren’t even paying customers - thats to enter FOR FREE! These people don’t even have skin in the game. They are just there to hang and gain an outside chance at a Limited Card.
Craziest part - I feel like this big number is…growing? Really? Maybe just a bit.
Hot Packs Ain’t So Hot? 📦
This week, Top Shot launched MORE packs (for real).
These were modestly priced: $3 for a pack with 1x moment, and $59 for 6x moments, one of which is a guaranteed Rare.
The former was labelled a “hot pack” which TS designates as their series 4 common packs that are RSVP-only.
I’m holding off on these, but polled the community and get their thoughts:
First response:
Oh…
Ok…
Alright, it wasn’t all bad:
I understand the narrative that Top Shot must drop packs to meet revenue quotas (although I don’t believe the team has ever actually confirmed this). But I’m also beginning to question the overall approach to these projects - notably the scarcity.
Any mint count over 500, for any NFT of any kind, is completely unjustifiable right now. We are in the absolute doldrums of the bear market, and practically every other NFT project is focused on adding value/rewards to their holders - not selling more stuff. There are very few of us left here to actually create the demand.
And its even worse when you zoom out and look at the reality that most collectors are facing…
That being said, it could be worse…
We could be dealing with a team that has dropped over TWO MILLION PACKS!!
🎧 Can NFTs Capture the $21 Billion Fantasy Sports Market?
It makes total sense: fantasy sports, but your players come as NFTs. So why aren't more people using the platforms available? And does web3 truly have anything to offer to the sports gambling crowd? The Fantasy Sports industry is set to double in size over the next 5 years, and a big part of that might just be crypto - so on today's show we talk to the experts about the barriers, the opportunities, and the market itself.
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